- [Instructor] Windows has a calendar application,
which can synchronize your appointments
with your online accounts.
Of course, you can go to the start menu to launch it.
Or if you're already working in the mail application,
down at the bottom of the window,
there is a button to launch the calendar.
Click on that and the calendar launches.
and I'm going to click the maximize button,
so we can see this full screen.
Now if you linked one or more email accounts
to your computer, you will probably see those accounts
here in the calendar.
I can see those listed over here on the left.
But also, I want to go into settings here in the calendar,
so I'll click the gear button down at the bottom.
That opens settings on the left.
Then I'll go to manage accounts,
and I can see all of the accounts that have been linked
that are working with the calendar.
It is possible that you link an email account
to your computer, which will work in the mail application,
but does not work in the calendar.
But you can check this to see which accounts
are working in the calendar.
And then you can click outside of this panel to close it.
So all of the appointments I have in my calendar,
were created on another computer.
Then they were saved in my online accounts,
and then they synchronized to this computer
when I linked those accounts to it.
As I'm looking at the calendar, I can switch my view,
up here near the top right.
I can look at a single day,
a week, a month or a year.
Let's go back to the month view.
You can also flip forward and backward in the calendar,
using these arrow buttons.
And you can always reset back to today,
by clicking the today button.
Okay, so let's look at creating a new appointment.
I'm here in the month view,
so I could just click on any individual day.
Or if you're in the week view or the day view,
you could select a day and a time.
So if I want to make an appointment for Friday at 11 o'clock,
I'll find the column for Friday,
then the row for 11 o'clock.
Click the box where they intersect,
and now I'm making the appointment there.
I'll start by giving this a name.
And then you can change the start and end time.
If this appointment is meant to last all day,
you can check this box,
and then you don't have to set the start and end time.
But I'm going to turn that off.
I'll keep the start time, but I'm going to change
the end time to noon.
Also, there's an option here to change the reminder.
So you will see a notification on your screen,
15 minutes before the appointment,
but you can change that time in here.
Next, I want to look up here in the top left corner.
And this tells me which online account
this appointment will be synchronized with.
And if you do have multiple accounts
linked to your computer, you can click this
to open up a menu and you could choose a different calendar.
So if I want to synchronize this with the calendar
on my Outlook account, I could choose that.
And you'll see that they are color-coded.
So it changes the entire color of that appointment.
So those are the bare essentials, but you can also click
this more details button where you have even more options.
One interesting thing here is the repeat option.
So you can click on that and set this to repeat
every day or every month or however you want.
I'll just click on that again, to turn it off.
A bunch of other settings here, but when you're finished,
you can click the save button.
And now that appointment has been saved,
and it's here on my calendar.
So that's one way to make an appointment,
but you could also click the new event button
over here on the left.
And that will do basically the same thing.
I don't want to actually set this.
So I'll click the delete button and confirm
that I want to delete that event.
And if you ever need to make changes
or delete an existing appointment,
you can click on it on the calendar to select it.
It takes you to this screen with more options.
You can make your changes, or if you want,
you can click that delete button,
confirm that you want to delete it.
And now that has been removed from my calendar.
So now you can manage your appointments
in the calendar in Windows.